Aldaris Tumsais

Brewed by Aldaris (Baltic Beverages Holding - Carlsberg)
Style: Dunkel
Riga, Latvia

Colour is almost pitch black with a small beige head. Aroma is a kombination of sweet fruity malt and some roasted malt with coffee. Aroma seems a bit chemical. Flavor is slightly sweet with some coffee.

Almost black colored, very big light brown head. Aroma has lot of chocolate. Roasted and mildly sweet caramel flavor, ends with biting hops and little carbonation feeling in tongue. Very nicely balanced brew. Body could be little stronger, still very good dunkel.

Bottled (BB 10/2004)
Dark ruby color. Foamy coffee-head. Lively carbonation. Aroma is roasted malt and milk chocolate. Medium-bodied, roasted malt, slightly bitter with hints of alcohol. World class dunkel.

Very nice, deep, dark red color with medium, tanned head. Quite dry, slightly roasted coffee-malty aroma. Quite dry, hoppy, roasted-malty and slightly smoky flavor. Turns sllightly sweeter towards the end. Medium-bodied, slightly thin, slicky, quite carbonated palate. A quite tasty and balanced brew that feels like 1/2 of czech dark lager, 1/2 porter and a sip of coffee and smoked beer as a bonus. Becomes more dry, roasted and smooth when warm.

A very good, tasty and colourful beer that won the World Beer Cup a couple of years ago.

It pours really well with a good chocolate colour and a creamy head. It did finish poorly however but given the circumstances of being held over at the airport in Riga and getting this for free it was not as bad as it could have been.

Malty, brown sugar aroma, deep brown with a medium toffee head. Sweet, soft molasses, roasted and nutty flavour. Good bitterness, sweet but not overly so, an interesting example of the style.

Very much like a German dunkel but a little lacking at the edges.Thinish taste but not too gassy so not a bad drink.But if you want to try the real thing its got to be from Germany.